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Tecoma is a residential suburb in hilly surrounds 35 km. east-south-east of Melbourne and one km. west of Belgrave.
Until 1925 Tecoma did not have a separate identity, being known as part of Upper Ferntree Gully, Upwey or as Lower Belgrave. It had the Upwey Church of England (1904), and the Belgrave State School (1906). The name came about when residents of "Lower Belgrave"persuaded the Victorian Railways to build a railway station, which was named Tecoma after a plant which grew in the locality. The Tecoma Station Extension Estate (land subdivision) followed shortly. Although sales were small, the name succeeded.
Tecoma has a small strip shopping centre, somewhat held in check by its proximity to Belgrave, churches and a primary school. Residences are built in hilly country, well planted with trees, which can be endangered by bushfires from the Dandenong Ranges National Park to the north or from open country in Belgrave South.
Tecoma's census populations have been 416 (1933) and 1,115 (1947).
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